Sovereigns of the Sea: The Quest to Build the Perfect Renaissance Battleship
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- 1. august 2008
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- 164x32x244 mm.
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- 16. januar 2025
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It was the age of the great humanist scholars, of poets, architects, painters, inventors, scientists, sculptors, and doctors--and of one of the most ferocious and costly arms races in history. Beginning with the first marriage of guns and ships in the early fifteenth century, the monarchs of Europe launched a desperate competition to rule the waves with ever larger, more powerful, and more seaworthy warships. Driven by continuous advances in gunfounding technology, this deadly contest gave rise, almost immediately, to national navies, led to great leaps in shipbuilding and design, and produced revolutions in naval strategy and tactics. The price of these advances was always enormous and, in some cases, ruinous.In Sovereigns of the Sea, historian Angus Konstam charts the dramatic course of this all-out struggle for maritime supremacy. He explains why the very notion of placing heavy artillery aboard a sailing vessel posed daunting challenges to Renaissance shipbuilders, and why trial-and-error efforts to overcome these challenges could easily result in disaster. Citing shipbuilding efforts in England, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, and even Scotland, Konstam examines the two centuries of politics, technology, ambition, and savage sea battles that produced the ultimate military sailing vessel--the ship-of-the-line.Beginning with Henry V's Grace à Dieu, a colossus of its day, Konstam tells the tales behind a series of "super-ships," state-of-the-art behemoths designed to overpower any vessel that stood in their way. From Scotland's never-tested Great Michael and Sweden's ill-fated Vasa to Henry VIII's fearsome Regent and Charles I's Sovereign of the Seas, their stories follow the path of shipbuilding, politics, and technological innovation during this crucial period of world history. Also key to this evolution was the experience of ships' captains and crews who, with no formal instruction in the use of these powerful new weapons, had to learn under the worst possible conditions--in the heat of battle at sea. Konstam's accounts of this perilous on-the-job training bring the thrill, horror, and confusion of sea battle to life.Complete with a fascinating description of the raising of Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose, whose amazingly well-preserved hull and interior have changed modern understanding of Renaissance ship building, Sovereigns of the Sea is compelling reading for anyone interested in the Renaissance, naval and military history, and the age of fighting sail.
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